Allow/disallow SMTP auth from the admin panel per account/CoS/domain
Just like POP3 or IMAP4.
Blocking users from using SMTP auth when not needed (users with webmail only and/or mobile sync) would be a big plus for security (no more spam sent using brute-forced accounts or passwords gained through phishing).
Even you consider it as a good security practice and suggest admins use it (in your SecOps tips on the wiki).
However, instead of implementing the feature, you link a 2018 blog post that implies modifying postfix files on the server to block users. It has to be done in CLI, user per user. Hardly usable except on server with a little number of accounts (and even less creation/deletion of accounts).
The blog author was already hoping in 2018 that you eventually implement the feature in the admin panel…
Link: https://wiki.zimbra.com/wiki/Secopstips#Disable_smtp_authentication
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